can telling it's the programming off season here on TV. ABCTV on Thursday nights 8.30pm are showing a 7 part series titled 'sevens ages of rock', which purports to be ... a history of rock.
Now such things are always contentious because there's only so much that can be packed into 6-7 hours.... but...... according to the series, rock began in the 1960s in London......
What a load of crock.
(a) Rock began in the United States in 1955 with ROCKabilly.
(b) they dismiss the enormous contribution of the Brill building, which only serves to emphasise their bias.
(c) they claim British bands discovered howlin' wolf etc....
(d) and it didn't even mention ELVIS......
No disrespect to the Who, Rolling Stones, Clapton, who it focuses on and who are all brilliant and worthy etc etc but this series should have started in the US in 1950s if it calls itself a history of ROCK. What were they thinking???? British propaganda for the colonials perhaps?
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